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EventSource

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 6)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Also called Server-sent Events, these are push notifications from the server received as DOM events.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://whatwg.org/html#server-sent-events
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: No signals

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventSource

Samples: http://simpl.info/eventsource/

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